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How open is the asteroid-mass primordial black hole window? (2024)
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Gorton, M., & Green, A. M. (2024). How open is the asteroid-mass primordial black hole window?. SciPost Physics, 17(2), Article 032. https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.2.032

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can make up all of the dark matter (DM) if their mass, m, is in the so-called “asteroid-mass window”, 10^{17} g ≲ m ≲ 10^{22} g1017g≲m≲1022g. Observational constraints on the abundance of PBHs are usually calculated assu... Read More about How open is the asteroid-mass primordial black hole window?.

Primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate - a brief overview (2024)
Journal Article
Green, A. M. (2024). Primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate - a brief overview. Nuclear Physics B, 1003, Article 116494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2024.116494

Historically the most popular dark matter candidates have been new elementary particles, such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and axions. However Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), black holes formed from overdensities in the early Universe, are... Read More about Primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate - a brief overview.

Primordial black holes and stochastic inflation beyond slow roll. Part I. Noise matrix elements (2023)
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Mishra, S. S., Copeland, E. J., & Green, A. M. (2023). Primordial black holes and stochastic inflation beyond slow roll. Part I. Noise matrix elements. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023(September 2023), Article 005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/09/005

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) may form in the early Universe, from the grav-itational collapse of large density perturbations, generated by large quantum fluctuations during inflation. Since PBHs form from rare over-densities, their abundance is sens... Read More about Primordial black holes and stochastic inflation beyond slow roll. Part I. Noise matrix elements.

Modelling uncertainties in wide binary constraints on primordial black holes (2023)
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Tyler, E., Green, A. M., & Goodwin, S. P. (2023). Modelling uncertainties in wide binary constraints on primordial black holes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(2), 3052–3059. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2028

Dark matter in the form of compact objects with mass Mco ≳ 10 M⊙ can be constrained by its dynamical effects on wide binary stars. Motivated by the recent interest in primordial black hole dark matter, we revisit the theoretical modelling involved in... Read More about Modelling uncertainties in wide binary constraints on primordial black holes.

Effect of clustering on primordial black hole microlensing constraints (2022)
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Gorton, M., & Green, A. M. (2022). Effect of clustering on primordial black hole microlensing constraints. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(08), Article 035. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/08/035

Stellar microlensing observations tightly constrain compact object dark matter in the mass range (10-11-103)M ⊙. Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) form clusters, and it has been argued that these microlensing constraints are consequently weakened or evad... Read More about Effect of clustering on primordial black hole microlensing constraints.

Direct detection of dark matter - APPEC committee report (2022)
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Billard, J., Boulay, M., Cebrián, S., Covi, L., Fiorillo, G., Green, A., …Schumann, M. (2022). Direct detection of dark matter - APPEC committee report. Reports on Progress in Physics, 85(5), Article 056201. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/ac5754

This report provides an extensive review of the experimental programme of direct detection searches of particle dark matter. It focuses mostly on European efforts, both current and planned, but does it within a broader context of a worldwide activity... Read More about Direct detection of dark matter - APPEC committee report.

Dark matter in astrophysics/cosmology (2022)
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Green, A. M. (2022). Dark matter in astrophysics/cosmology. SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysLectNotes.37

These lecture notes aim to provide an introduction to dark matter from the perspective of astrophysics/cosmology. We start with a rapid overview of cosmology, including the evolution of the Universe, its thermal history and structure formation. Then... Read More about Dark matter in astrophysics/cosmology.

Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate (2020)
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Green, A. M., & Kavanagh, B. J. (2021). Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 48(4), Article 043001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/abc534

The detection of gravitational waves from mergers of tens of Solar mass black hole binaries has led to a surge in interest in Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) as a dark matter candidate. We aim to provide a (relatively) concise overview of the status of... Read More about Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate.

Constraints on the cosmic string loop collapse fraction from primordial black holes (2020)
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James-Turner, C., Weil, D. P. B., Green, A. M., & Copeland, E. J. (2020). Constraints on the cosmic string loop collapse fraction from primordial black holes. Physical Review D, 101(12), Article 123526. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.123526

A small fraction, f , of cosmic string loops can collapse to form Primordial Black Holes (PBHs). Constraints on the abundance of PBHs can therefore be used to constrain f. We update these calculations, taking into account the PBH extended mass functi... Read More about Constraints on the cosmic string loop collapse fraction from primordial black holes.

Understanding the suppression of structure formation from dark matter-dark energy momentum coupling (2020)
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Chamings, F. N., Avgoustidis, A., Copeland, E. J., Green, A. M., & Pourtsidou, A. (2020). Understanding the suppression of structure formation from dark matter-dark energy momentum coupling. Physical Review D, 101(4), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.043531

Models in which scalar field dark energy interacts with dark matter via a pure momentum coupling have previously been found to potentially ease the structure formation tension between early-and late-universe observations. In this article we explore t... Read More about Understanding the suppression of structure formation from dark matter-dark energy momentum coupling.